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Question 21. CSCD240-E1-B

Print the second column of data.csv (comma-separated).

Work the drill

Answer on paper or in a terminal before revealing the ideal answer.

Ideal answer
cut -d ',' -f 2 data.csv
Acceptable alternatives: ["awk -F, '{print $2}' data.csv"]

Misconception bank

Each row below is a plausible wrong answer, the thinking that produces it, and the remedy that corrects the misconception. These are the foundation of the multiple-choice framing and the targeted feedback a student receives after answering.

cut -f 2 data.csv
Misconception. Default delimiter is tab.
Remedy. Use -d for non-tab.

Authority mappings

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DCWF tasks: T0259
KU outcomes: CD-OSC-O2

Course-artifact links

Lectures

  • CSCD240-S26-L08. Pipes, filters, grep, sort, uniq, wc, tar

Lab questions

  • CSCD240-S26-LAB5: Use wc -l, head -n 5, tail -n 5, cut -d, -f 2 on a CSV.

CTF challenges

  • 04 Environment & Patterns: The Divider